New York Post and SpectrumDNA Partner to Launch Exclusive New York Addictionary
27 Julio 2009 - 5:30AM
PR Newswire (US)
Online Application to Capture New Lingo and Lexicon Specific to
Sports, Business, Entertainment and Life in the Big Apple PARK
CITY, Utah, July 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SpectrumDNA (OTC
Bulletin Board: SPXA) has signed a contract with the New York Post
to license its Addictionary, a SaaS (software-as-a-service)
user-generated dictionary that lets people create their own words
and definitions. Known for its eye-catching headlines,
ground-breaking gossip and play on words, the New York Post reaches
nearly 5.5 million online unique users per month and is a natural
fit for the Addictionary social media application. The New York
Addictionary will serve as an engine to increase key metrics of
user engagement including page views, time spent on site, frequency
of visits, viral and word-of-mouth distribution and premium ad and
sponsorship inventory. "This is all a vital part of the evolution
of newspaper business in the age of social media," said Chris Shaw,
Vice President Digital Media at the New York Post. "New Yorkers
have a definite and unique cultural point-of-view. By offering this
engine of engagement, it gives our users a creative outlet for
user-generated-content and a simultaneous platform for social
commentary. It is the perfect context to exercise creativity while
spending more time on nypost.com." The application is set to launch
in August and will pave the way for derivative products such as
greeting cards, calendars, games and books featuring the top-rated
words created by the community at nypost.com. "We're excited to see
the New York Post lead the charge into social media applications
that make sense for the newspaper industry," said Jim Banister, CEO
of SpectrumDNA. "'Social' doesn't need to include 'networking,' and
social wordplay is a perfect first step into social media for a
local daily newspaper. The Addictionary enables local audiences to
challenge each other to coin the lexicon of their life, get
attribution for doing so, and feed their other social media outlets
like blogs and Twitter." The New York Post Addictionary joins a
network of social media communities which includes NBC's "The
Office" Addictionary, E! Entertainment's Celebrity Addictionary,
Comedy Central's Political Addictionary, Dictionary.com's
Addictionary and FEARnet's Horror Addictionary. Addictionary
recently took first prize in the Amusement Category at the 12th
Annual SXSW Interactive Web Awards Ceremony. About SpectrumDNA
Based in Park City, Utah, SpectrumDNA, Inc. is a digital studio
that creates social media applications that are engines of
engagement (or "enginets"), empowering users to take an active,
measurable role in their online communities. These private-label
applications can be easily configured and branded for media outlets
and advertisers to capture specific audience behaviors, and to
develop advertiser-safe user-generated and user-marketed content.
Enginets can be leveraged for both short-term promotions and for
building long-term assets, and employ both a centralized experience
(online or mobile web destination) and distributed experience
(widgetry, iPhone apps, feeds, etc). About the New York Post The
New York Post is the oldest continuously published newspaper in the
U.S. nypost.com offers a lively mix of metropolitan news and
gossip, entertainment, sports and business coverage to a nationwide
audience. Average monthly readership of over 10 million unique
visitors places it among the top ten USA news portals and its
content is frequently linked to by other leading news sites and
portals. The New York Post is owned by News Corporation.
DATASOURCE: SpectrumDNA, Inc. CONTACT: Lewis Goldberg,
+1-212-896-1216, , or Anne Donohoe, +1-212-896-1261, , both of KCSA
Strategic Communications Web Site: http://www.spectrumdna.com/
http://www.nypost.com/
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